Abductions Update: Is Japan Ready to Put Steel on Target?

This could be serious:

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has drawn up a draft bill tentatively named: “The North Korea Human Rights Bill” which calls for Japanese economic sanctions on Pyongyang if it fails to acknowledge its abduction of Japanese nationals and improve its human rights record.

I’ve been wrong before when I’ve predicted that the United States and Japan were finally ready to put real pressure on North Korea, and I’m getting ready to stick my neck out and make that prediction again.